Walter Burghardt SJ

No Guarantees

by Jim Manney

Something to think about | Just because I am trying to do God’s work with every ounce of my being, is no guarantee that my plans will prosper. There is no guarantee that an effective Christian disciple will not be cut down in his prime. ` There is no guarantee that because you have given [...]

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The Imaginary Boy

by Jim Manney

The other day I came across a passage in a novel that brought me up short.  The book is Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy.  The writer describes the thoughts of a nine-year-old boy: “His father always talked to him—so he felt—as if he were addressing some imaginary boy, one of those that exist in books, [...]

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A Long, Loving Look at the Real

by Tim Muldoon

The Jesuit theologian Walter Burghardt once described contemplation as “a long, loving look at the real.”  As I understand him, he meant that to the extent that we behold the world as God has made it, come to see its contours designed lovingly by a loving creator, we become aware of the presence of the [...]

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